Mayor Narmania: Tbilisi sidewalks may be free of parked cars from September

Mayor Narmania: Tbilisi sidewalks may be free of parked cars from September

Tbilisi’s drivers have been allowed to park on sidewalks for years, but this will end in September. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–City authorities in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi are considering removing parking spaces that were allocated on the city’s sidewalks a few years ago.

Pedestrians may look forward to having the sidewalks cleared of cars already from September.

Sidewalks blocked by parked cars is a common view in the capital. The former government gave City Park – the company responsible for parking in Tbilisi streets – permission to use certain allocated spaces on sidewalks for parking.

But people are having problems walking in the streets because there are cars parked everywhere, Mayor Davit Narmania told Radio Commersant on Thursday.

“When we came into the city government, there were more than 2,000 such locations. We appropriated 500 locations from City Park and returned them to pedestrians,” Narmania said, and added that this summer, city authorities are planning to buy the remaining 1,500 locations that are still used for parking and free up the sidewalks for pedestrians by September.